Peacefire Issues Software to Block the Blocking Technology

In response to Congressional legislation requiring blocking technology in public schools and libraries, Peacefire has released a bypass program which can disable all popular Windows blocking software with the click of a button, Peacefire, December 18, 2000

FTC Approves AOL/Time Warner Deal

America Online won the blessing of U.S. antitrust authorities on Thursday to buy Time Warner in a $112.5 billion deal that will marry a new-economy Internet giant with a venerable old firm to create the world's biggest media company, Reuters, December 14, 2000

QueerNet and Online Policy Group to Merge

Management of QueerNet/PLUSnet and of the Online Policy Group today announced a merger designed to bolster universal access to production and distribution of community-based information on the Internet, December 12, 2000.

Fear Comes to Hollister

In a case that pits the privacy of anonymous web site authors against protections against potential defamation, gay owners of a small-town weekly sue to discover who is tormenting them, San Francisco Chronicle, December 10, 2000.

American Online Chairman Case and Wife Donate $8.35 Million to Private School Run by Anti-Gay Ministry

A roundup of news, controversy, and commentary about the $8.35 million donation made in 1999 by American Online chairman Stephen M. Case and his wife Jean to the anti-gay Westminster Academy in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, includes items from Gay.com, Miami Herald, PlanetOut, GLAAD, New York Times, Philanthropy News Digest, Sun-Sentinel, Southern Voice, Bay Area Reporter, Datalounge.com, Salon.com, Industry Standard, and Bay Windows, October 18 - December 7, 2000.

Consortium Offers "Unfiltered" Advice on Blocking Technology

The Safeguarding the Wired Schoolhouse initiative, launched by the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), is intended to provide school leaders with general guidelines for evaluating Internet protections, New York Times (may require free registration to access), December 6, 2000.
OPG invites organizations to form truly "unfiltered" consortium with no commercial ties to Internet blocking technology.

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